CLIMATE CHANGE: ENVIRONMENT COUNCIL SUPPORT FOR EUROPEAN PROGRAMME.

Europe Energy, October, 2000

COP6: Continuing disagreements.Focused on the Kyoto Protocol on reducing greenhouse gas emissions the COP6 meeting is "the last chance to revive the Kyoto Protocol. And yet six weeks before it starts, the major countries and groups of countries are still split over how to apply the international agreement".

So said the Dutch Environment Minister, Jan Pronk, in a statement he made on 5 October in Muiden, the Netherlands. He is due to chair the Ministerial meeting in November. Mr Pronk was talking to journalists at the end of an informal two-day meeting between representatives of 35 countries (25 of which were represented at Ministerial level) to consider the status of the technical negotiations in Lyons (4-15 September) and prepare for The Hague conference "There...

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